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As of late, I have been working on the UI for an iPhone app. The overall experience has been exciting because it’s a change from designing websites. While I was sketching my ideas out on basic graph paper, I was thinking wouldn’t it be nice to have a project book where I can sketch out my ideas and keep everything organized. So I took some time to design my own iPhone application sketchbook. I showed the first edition to a friend of mine, Barry Ezell who builds iPhone apps and he loved it.

After taking some time to tweak the sketchbooks a bit based on feedback, I have released my first three iPhone application sketchbooks online for sale.

I have many more sketchbooks on the design table right now and I will be posting them as they are available. I also have a few request for personal projects so if you are interested in the possibilities, drop me a line.

As web designers, we want the ability to the ability to use fonts other than the basic web safe fontstacks. Eventhough browsers developers are working on solutions for us, the lack of native support and licensing are the main obstacles we need to get past. In the meantime, sIFR and cufon are great workarounds.

Mozilla announced the support of the WOFF file format in the upcoming Firefox (3.6) release. WOFF fonts are a smaller, more compressed format that allows for faster downloads.

In ActionScript 3, this is what I need to do to get the same results. I initially wrote the example below thinking at some point, I will have several buttons that the user will interact with such as a navigation menu.

We as designers all have a design process. It’s the way we go about creating and building our projects no matter what they may be. So I thought I’d share mine. It’s a pdf of my design process that I share with clients. Now it’s a birds eye view of my process and does not drill down in to the gritty details of project management. It’s meant to be simple and straight forward. You can download it here.